Promotion Fest: “Rec me!” Comment Meme

[dark_administrator]

Hello, doers of darkness!

To kick off our fandom promotion fest, let’s have a recommendation meme:

• Comment with your favorite tropes, narrative kinks, character archetypes, and other qualities that you look for in a fandom.


• Reply to other people’s comments with recommendations for fandoms with chromatic creator(s) and character(s) that suit their preferences.

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Comments

[snowynight]

character type: competent decent characters who enjoy working with/spending time with each other.

[troisroyaumes]

I'm looking for humor--especially parody or satire--in any form: books, movies, TV shows, etc. Dark humor is fine, as long as it really does make me laugh, as well as more lighthearted humor. I especially appreciate witty dialogue and narration!

[littlebutfierce]

I am a sucker for chosen family stuff, finding the people who suit you/discovering therefore you're not weird, bad or wrong. Examples of what I mean: Natsume Yuujinchou, Kimi ni Todoke, ahahahaha. Other stuff?

[franzeska]

I love longsuffering best friend characters who prop up their more volatile and unhinged counterparts and anybody who ought to be the woobie but who's just too stable.

Alas, recs for this are always inherently spoilers, but I love plots that have presumed-dead characters popping up again, whether it's YuYu Hakusho style afterlife bureaucracy hijinks or secret agents with a bad habit of falling over cliffs at dramatic points in the plot. Also cheesiness. Lots of cheesiness.

[dharmavati]

I'd love any source that is a rom-com or has a comedic element to the romance of the story. I'm a particular sucker for:

- characters that are female and/or have other marginalized identities being respected by the narrative
- fake relationships/contracts
- crossdressing
- everyone else around the couple being a Shipper On Deck

[trascendenza]

Primarily I'm interesting in stuff about women that doesn't have much (if any) focus on romance.

Bonuses would be:
- women getting to have relationships with each other!
- fantasy elements, especially if they're unique/not like every other fantasy setting out there
- not too much interpersonal drama or over-the-top emotional drama (though of course what's "over the top" changes with context)

Examples of things I like: Fairly Legal, Aoi Hana, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Nikita, Moment in Peking, HawthoRNe, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Treme and My Name is Kim Sam Soon with the caveats that where applicable I probably would have preferred less romance and/or more focus on women. I'm also liking Claymore, though I'm not done with it yet. Oh, and I loved the movies Sin dejar huella, Spider Lilies, and Castillos de cartón.

[chomiji]

Lovers or spouses or even just really good lifelong friends (m/f, m/m, f/f - it matters not to me) who are equals and partners and who snark at each other as they face tough, dangerous situations. The genre can be fantasy, SF, mystery, or adventure, and the media should be print (fiction, manga, or maybe comics), because I don't watch many movies and barely any TV.

[troisroyaumes]

Anything with plots revolving around political/court intrigue, e.g. N.K. Jemisin's Hundred Thousand Kingdoms or the K-drama Queen Seondeok.

[anenko]

I'd love recs for something with fantasy or supernatural elements. I'm pretty well covered on the Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China front (although I'm open to any Must Read/Watch recs you may have!)

My attempts on Amazon bring up Serious Literature, which. . . isn't my thing. I'm open to reading/watching more from any corner of the world. I'd also really love recs from stories by Chromatic Canadians. Think along the lines of Rabbit Fall.

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Romance novel recs would also be welcomed. Preferably with competent heroines, and not too heavy on Alpha Male behaviour.

[aldanise]

I'm a sucker for stories with relationships that are actually poly or can be read as poly (like love triangles/polygons that are never definitely decided). Powerful Opponents, for example, or Black & White, where they kind of tie off the relationships but don't hammer the point. (I should mention that I don't mind spoilers at all, since you may have to spoil the relationship plot to rec.)

I also prefer stories with at least one primary female character and ones where the characters have ambitions and jobs that they love as well as romances. Saving the World never hurts, either.

[esmenet]

I'm primarily looking for stories that include or focus on important non-sexual relationships, preferably between women.

Other things I really enjoy:

—introverts having friends
—slice-of-life stories about people hanging out and having fun
—magic or implausible science that isn't big and flashy and a huge deal; just, y'know, normal
—technical details! Like, if a character really loves their job or something, I want to hear all about what they do and why they like it.

Some examples: BOSS, Samurai Champloo, Ashita no Ousama, Gokusen, Natsume Yuujinchou, Nobuta wo Produce, Land of the Blindfolded, Hourou Musuko.

[vi]

I'm looking for stories that deal with atonement. I thought Seirei no Moribito dealt with it in a way that was subtle and not over-bearing -- plus, hello, woman being awesome!

Also, are there any stories (any medium) that people know of that are by chromatic Australian creators? (e.g., authors Shaun Tan and Nam Le.) I'm particularly interested in stories about Aboriginal Australians, such as the TV series The Circuit.

[whynot]

I'm a fan of heist and gangster movies like Ocean's 11, Quentin Tarantino's stuff, Guy Ritchie's stuff, Goodfellas, Infernal Affairs, etc. Recs of this nature, particularly for movies and TV, would greatly appreciated!